Emotional Terrain: Anger
[Exploring Life] Anger is a strong emotional reaction in response to a perceived provocation or injustice. The emotional reaction consists of an often unintended improvisatory abyss of displeasure, irritation, resentment, outrage, and enmity. Anger is an extreme reaction that takes our body and mind to the very edge of a threshold in which rationale thinking [...]
Ecopsychology: Law of Mother Earth
[Exploring Life] Bolivia is posed to create a law that grants nature equal right to a humans, and have also suggested that the United Nations adopt a Proposal Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth. The proposal originates in an eco-sensitive set of presuppositions that redefine our relationship with the earth and dramatically alters [...]
Mental Degradation: Habit – Involuntary Routines
How much of our experience is driven by involuntary tendencies and habits? Understanding the nature and essence of habit in our lives is an essential task. Habits are both inevitable and unavoidable. They are a medium of perception; a complex network of filters that influence how we interpret and orient ourselves to everyday life. The [...]